CVE-2010-2027: Wolfram Research Mathematica

Low severity, CVSS 1.9. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Mathematica 7, when running on Linux, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on (1) files within /tmp/MathLink/ or (2) /tmp/fonts$$.conf.

Affected products

• Wolfram Research Mathematica: version 7 only

Published 2010-05-24. Last modified 2026-06-16.